This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ... only 140 pounds per cubic foot when seasoned, or 145-150 when freshly qunrried. Mississippi.--Sandstones of gray and light buff color occur in Jefferson, Rankin, and Tishomingo Counties, in this State. Samples of these were on exhibition at the exposition at New Orleans in the winter of 1884-'85, and from thence were ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ... only 140 pounds per cubic foot when seasoned, or 145-150 when freshly qunrried. Mississippi.--Sandstones of gray and light buff color occur in Jefferson, Rankin, and Tishomingo Counties, in this State. Samples of these were on exhibition at the exposition at New Orleans in the winter of 1884-'85, and from thence were transferred to the national collection at Washington. As shown by these specimens the stones are fine-grained but rather soft and friable, and in no way remarkable for their beauty. Their durability would depend apparently altogether on climatic influences. The writer has no information regarding the uses to which the stones have been put, if, indeed, they have as yet been used at all-. Montana.--A fine light gray Cretaceous sandstone somewhat resembling the well-known stone of Berea, Ohio, occurs in considerable abundance in Rocky Canon, Gallatin County, and is coming into general use in Bosemau. The writer is informed that it can be obtained in blocks of large dimensions and that it works readily when first quarried, but hardens on exposure, though, like the Ohio stone, it stains with reddish streaks from oxidation of pyrite. A compact red quartzite from near Salesville, west of the west Gallatin, is also coining into use to some extent. A fine, very light stone of uncertain age is also quarried By Dr. A. C, Peale, U. S. Geol. Survey. near Dillon for use in Butte, Deer Lodge County. So recently lias the Territory become settled that there has as yet arisen but little demand for other materials than wood for building. The great scarcity of this article in the most thickly settled portions of the Territory, together with the abundance of easy-working, but in so dry a climate durable, sandstone, will doubtless bring about a radical change withi...
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1889. Washington Government Printing Office. Softback. Book-Good, wear to cover, rough edges. 10x6. 648pp. 9 b/w plates. Some b/w illus. The collection of building and ornamental stones in the National Museum is made up very largely from materials received from the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia in 1876,